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Definition of devoir in English: devoirnoun dəˈvwɑːdəˈvwɑr archaic A person's duty. you have done your devoir right well Example sentencesExamples - The hedge was laid by a veteran Yorkshireman, and the lord of the manor's bailiff was present to see the devoir properly carried out.
- For yet another year, indigenous performance arts showed incredibly minimal growth, with creativity seemingly dedicating itself to the devoir of producing perplexity rather than refinement.
Synonyms duty, commitment, responsibility, moral imperative
Phrases archaic Pay one's respects formally. I paid my devoirs to both Example sentencesExamples - Hereby allow me to pay our devoirs to you in behalf of all the staff of our company.
- Very warily has ‘my lord’ to pay his devoirs, for any unnecessary bashfulness on his part but precipitates his fate, which is, alas, to be eaten up.
- I wish you a good morning, and will pay my devoirs in a day or two to inquire after your health, and hear what has taken place.
- But since it is well for a squire to have some one to whom to pay his devoirs, and since, also, thou needest a proper squire, I tell thee, Faith, that thou shalt be my lady, and in all things will I be thy faithful squire.
- Let not the traveller omit to pay his devoirs to the liquid ‘manna of Montepulciano,’ the monarch of Tuscan, if not of all other wines, as Bacchus and Redi have pronounced it.
Origin Middle English: from Old French deveir, from Latin debere 'owe'. The spelling, and subsequently the pronunciation, was changed under the influence of modern French devoir. Rhymes aargh, Accra, afar, ah, aha, aide-mémoire, ajar, Alcazar, are, Armagh, armoire, Artois, au revoir, baa, bah, bar, barre, bazaar, beaux-arts, Bekaa, bête noire, Bihar, bizarre, blah, Bogotá, Bonnard, bra, cafard, café noir, Calabar, car, Carr, Castlebar, catarrh, Changsha, char, charr, cigar, comme ci comme ça, commissar, coup d'état, de haut en bas, Dhofar, Directoire, Du Bois, Dumas, Dunbar, éclat, embarras de choix, escritoire, fah, famille noire, far, feu de joie, film noir, foie gras, Fra, galah, gar, guar, guitar, ha, hah, ha-ha, Halacha, hurrah, hussar, huzza, insofar, Invar, jar, je ne sais quoi, ka, kala-azar, Kandahar, khimar, Khorramshahr, knar, Krasnodar, Kwa, la-di-da, lah, Lehár, Loire, ma, mama, mamma, mar, Mardi Gras, ménage à trois, mirepoix, moire, nam pla, Navarre, noir, objet d'art, pa, pah, Panama, papa, par, Pará, Paraná, pas, pâté de foie gras, peau-de-soie, pietà, Pinot Noir, pooh-bah, poult-de-soie, pya, rah, registrar, Saar, Salazar, Sana'a, sang-froid, scar, schwa, Seychellois, shah, Shangri-La, shikar, ska, sol-fa, spa, spar, star, Starr, Stranraer, ta, tahr, tar, tartare, tata, tra-la, tsar, Twa, Villa, voilà, waratah, yah Definition of devoir in US English: devoirnoundəˈvwɑrdəˈvwär archaic A person's duty. you have done your devoir right well Example sentencesExamples - The hedge was laid by a veteran Yorkshireman, and the lord of the manor's bailiff was present to see the devoir properly carried out.
- For yet another year, indigenous performance arts showed incredibly minimal growth, with creativity seemingly dedicating itself to the devoir of producing perplexity rather than refinement.
Synonyms duty, commitment, responsibility, moral imperative
Phrases archaic Pay one's respects formally. I paid my devoirs to both Example sentencesExamples - Hereby allow me to pay our devoirs to you in behalf of all the staff of our company.
- I wish you a good morning, and will pay my devoirs in a day or two to inquire after your health, and hear what has taken place.
- Very warily has ‘my lord’ to pay his devoirs, for any unnecessary bashfulness on his part but precipitates his fate, which is, alas, to be eaten up.
- But since it is well for a squire to have some one to whom to pay his devoirs, and since, also, thou needest a proper squire, I tell thee, Faith, that thou shalt be my lady, and in all things will I be thy faithful squire.
- Let not the traveller omit to pay his devoirs to the liquid ‘manna of Montepulciano,’ the monarch of Tuscan, if not of all other wines, as Bacchus and Redi have pronounced it.
Origin Middle English: from Old French deveir, from Latin debere ‘owe’. The spelling, and subsequently the pronunciation, was changed under the influence of modern French devoir. |